Spinner Gerunds Obnoxious

Anyone? Hello? :(

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Agreed, the gerunds are annoying after a while, would be nice to be able to disable.

Here is a comment to keep this issue open. The issue is getting more important because more devs are using Claude Code and that means the unnecessary distraction of random verbs or gerunds is wasting increasing amounts of human brainspace.

Totally agreed, it's so obnoxious!!

Adding insult to injury, it apparently uses AI to come up with these. That's not a valid reason to melt the glaciers.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4034#issuecomment-3396814303 claims to have a workaround.

I join this issue. It's so improfessional...

Flibertygibbeting? Nebulizing? really? not inspiring much confidence. really.

Please allow the user to disable this. My ADHD draws me to focus on this message often and it's distracting.

Agreed! They very distracting and completely useless :-)

Can we please do something about this

@alessio-locatelli does that work for your Claude Code Extension in VS code? Or only the CLI? For me it didn't work (I don't use the CLI).

Chiming in, I too find this distracting and would love to have the option to customize this.

In the CLI version, adding this to my ~/.claude/settings.json takes care of it.

  "spinnerVerbs": {
    "mode": "replace",
    "verbs": [
      "Working"
    ]
  }

@alester-fss This issue is about the duration messages (e.g. Churned for ...), not about the spinner verbs.

In my opinion, this functionality should not have been implemented in the first place, as users should not need to request its disabling.

The issue has the name "Spinner Gerunds Obnoxious".

I’ve noticed several requests regarding the status spinner. Users are looking for more descriptive updates—such as "Updating [File Name]" or "Researching [Topic]"—rather than a generic animation. Since Gemini already implements this type of real-time feedback, is there a technical reason why this isn't currently on the roadmap?

This may be a red herring - in Claude Code (CLI) there are no obnoxious distracting verbs. That may be a result of the settings suggested above which I added but who knows. However, back in VS Code they are spinning as usual. Perhaps they are related to VS Code not Claude!

This may be a red herring - in Claude Code (CLI) there are no obnoxious distracting verbs. That may be a result of the settings suggested above which I added but who knows. However, back in VS Code they are spinning as usual. Perhaps they are related to VS Code not Claude!

no, they appear in Claude (terminal) -- and if you ask Claude "what does Trembluating mean" it will declare no knowledge and if you say "but you just used the word" it will gaslight you.

@alester-fss 's solution works great. Thank you!

if you ask Claude "what does Trembluating mean" it will declare no knowledge and if you say "but you just used the word"

That's because it's the client that is showing the words, but Claude is separate from the client.

I'm glad that solution worked for you.

This is a duplicate of #6814, which was fixed as of version 2.1.23.

Hey bot, I see your intention, but a duplicate issue is newer by definition.
I hope you wouldn't close iisues as duplicates of each other, like here https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/19267, right?

The claim that this was fixed in 2.1.23 also seems misleading or outright hallucinatory. The bug that this one was closed as a duplicate of was simply closed as stale (i.e. no good reason at all).

I appears that the bot correctly discover the fixing version https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#2123 in https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6814#issuecomment-4043193711, let's delete the misleading comment if possible.

But the VS code extension STILL has the exact same problem.

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